Holder for metal type-bars.



No. 881,467. I I PATENTBD MAR.10,1908. J. s. DUNCAN.

HOLDER FOR METAL TYPE BARS. "APPLIOAITION FILED JULY 3. 1907.

024% 4042i I MW r The type holder t is stamped from a single UNITED STATES PATENT 'FFICE.

JOSEPH S. DUNCAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ADDRESSOGRAPH COMPANY, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

HOLDER FOR METAL TYPE-BARS.

Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented March 10, 1908.-

Application filed m a, 1907. Serial No: 381,980.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. DUNCAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Holders for Metal Type-Bars, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a device of simple and inexpensive construction in which metal type bars of uniform cross section may be readily and easily inserted and which will securely hold the bars in their roper position.

The evice may be provided with any number of grooves for holding the type bars and in the drawings I have illustrated the invention as embodied in a holder having three type grooves and referring to which Figure 1 is a plan view of the holder with three ty e bars therein. Figs. 2. and 3 are sectiona views on the lines 22 and 3-3 of Fig. 1 showing the type bars in broken lines to more clearly illustrate the invention.

sheet of metal and is provided with three typev grooves 5 to accommodate the t e bars 6. Each ty e groove in the holder as an inclined wall 7 to bear at its upper edge against one side of the bar and a projection 8 to bear against the other side of the bar, the type bar having a groove 9 near its face to receive the end of the rojection. The projection 8 extends laterally from the upper edges of the wall 7 and the wall 10 and spaces the type bars apart. The wall 11 of t e holder is s a ed at its upper edge to enter the recesses in t e bar and constitutes a projection for the pu ose described. The wall 7 is sprun inward y so that the t. e groove between t e upper edge of said wa land the end of projection 8 is slightly less in width than the thickness of the type bar on a line through the recesses 9 so that when the type bar is inserted in the groove the u per part of the wall 7 will press the bar ti htly against the projection 8 and securely ho d the bar in the groove.

To facilitate the insertion of the t in the groove the sides thereof are e bar ightly flared at the entrance end 12. The

other] sprung wall and sai end of each groove is closed by a lip 13. The t e bars are cast in uniform size exce t as to ength which varies according to tfie number of type characters on the bar and the flared or enlarged end of the type groove per mits the end of the type. bar to be readily inserted in the groove after which the bar can be easily pushed in the groove to its proper location. In the case of an address of several lines the type bars will be arranged generally at different positions in the holder as shown in Fig. 1 and the construc tion is such that each bar will be securely. held in its proper location during'the use thereof for printing pu oses.

The holders are inten ed for use on frames carfiying also cards and forming part of a car in ex system. The card bears an impression of the address on the type bars. The type bars are made approximately, square in cross section and they are not extended at their ends materially beyond the' type characters thereon so that the weight of t e type bars forming the address and the cost of preparing the same is materially less than the present cost of preparing addresses in galleys in the ordinary way. I An address made'of metal type bars in this manner is also less expensive than an address made of rubber ty e or rubber type bars or slugs.

The type ars are not only securely held 111 lace in the holder but they are constantly held in proper printing position, that is to say with their faces in the same plane to make a clear and uniform impression.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: I

The combination of metal type bars each having a longitudinal groove in one side thereof near its face, a vholder provided with a plurality of type grooves to receive said type bars and stampedfrom a single sheet of metal, each of said type grooves aving one wall sprung inwardl to bear against one side of the type bar, an a projection on the upper end of the inwardly sprun wall of the adjacent t pe'groove to fit in t e grooves in the bar, t e width of the type groove between the upper ed e of said inwardly projection for the 10" proper greater portion of the length of the type the entrance end thereof bein slightlyflared groove being slightly less than the thickness l to facilitate the insertion of tie type bar.

ofthe type bar on a line through the recess l therein so that said inwardly sprung Wall JOSEPH DUNCAN will press the type bar tightly against said Witnesses:

projection and hold the type bar in the type WM. 0. BELT, groove, and the walls of said-type groove at M. A. KIDDIET. 

